Report On the Culture And Curing of Tobacco in the United States
Report On the Culture And Curing of Tobacco in the United States
Killebrew, Joseph Buckner, 1831-1906
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A. BROCK. It is an unquestioned fact that tobacco reigns supreme among artificial stimulants in popular estimation. No sooner were its peculiar qualities made known than it was sought after with the greatest avidity, until now, after a lapse of a little more than three centuries since its introduction into civilized Europe, its use has become universal, the world yielding to its fascinations in one or more of the forms of its use, either as smokers, chewers, or snuffers. As many as forty variet...ies of the tobacco-plant have been noted by botanists, but one of 1 hem alone claims here our attention in its connection with our narrative, that designated by Linnreus as Nicotiana tabacum, and common to Virginia, to the material prosperity of which it has held the most important relation as a staple product from the first settlement as a colony. Among the aborigines of the continent of America, according 806 CULTURE AND CURING IN VIRGINIA. 213 to Sir Hans Sloane (a) it was kuown as pcstum, while those who inhabited the islands called it yoli.
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